Management Implications of a Shifting Marketplace
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A review is offered of the transitional health care market with its implied policies for management innovations. Technology has played a significant part in the current business-oriented approach taken by health care professionals; improved diagnostic equipment stimulated advances in oncology and gerontology-leading to an increased aged population. The course of government regulation has altered considerably since 1929, accounting for more than forty per cent of all health care expenditures in 1980. Hospital administrators have sought planning, organizing and financing techniques to maintain their institutions' viability. Marketing integration, with input toward preventive medicine, as opposed to medical treatment, appears to be the prime component of success. Capital monies plus equity funding (especially for non-profit voluntary facilities) will help to overcome 'non-profit mind-set', which holds hospitals back to their complacent status quo.
Publication Name: Hospital & Health Services Administration
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 8750-3735
Year: 1984
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The Long-Term Care Marketplace: An Overview
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Long-term health care is becoming even more prevalent with services to the elderly the most common group served due to expanded life spans. Nursing homes provide most of this care although private homes are a source as well. Problem areas in providing adequate care are: shortages in beds in some states, and lack of funds to pay for such extensive care. Medicaid subsidizes the majority of all long-term care for the elderly, private sources cover approximately forty per cent. In order to keep peace with the rapidly growing need, expanded facilities and greater sources of financing are needed. Charts are included.
Publication Name: Healthcare Financial Management
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0735-0732
Year: 1984
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Measuring charitable contributions: implications for the nonprofit hospital's tax-exempt status
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Nonprofit hospitals are often vulnerable to attacks concerning their tax-exempt status, depending on what type of measure is used to evaluate their charitable work. Current means of measuring charitable care contributions vary widely. Thus, a common definition and a standard form of measurement are desirable. A hospital should include shortfalls from Medicare and Medicaid when calculating charity care contributions, as this will greatly increase the amount of contributions attributable to the hospital. Additional implications for policymakers are discussed.
Publication Name: Hospital & Health Services Administration
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 8750-3735
Year: 1993
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